The Blind Side – DVD – Édition Import – 2010 – Warner Bros.

The Blind Side takes the true story of a young man who went from abandonment to success as a pro-football player and treats it with respect. The movie doesn't oversell what is on the face of it already compelling. It's almost impossible to describe the plot without sounding painfully inspirational: Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron Be Kind Rewind) a hulking but gentle African-American teen in Tennessee gets taken in by a well-to-do white family the mother Leigh Anne Touhy (Sandra Bullock) pushes and mothers the boy who eventually wins a football scholarship to the University of Mississippi. In the wrong hands this could have been maudlin manipulative and condescending. To the credit of writer-director John Lee Hancock adapting Michael Lewis's acclaimed book the result is intelligent genuine and alternately funny and moving. Leigh Anne could easily have been grandstanding and virtuous but Bullock doesn't shy away from her vain and domineering side. The football scenes will be gripping even to